Becoming a : Scrum Certified Product Owner
This week I officially became a: Scrum Certified Product Owner I have always had an interest in ways to optimise team efficiency, first beginning when I took operations management at University, studying Lean, Agile, Sigma 6 to name just a few. Last year I became interested in Scrum, first reading "Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time" by Jeff Sutherland. It intrigued me but due to my job at the time I never really took it much further not having a need to optimise team efficiency at the time. New Team This was until I changed teams and became responsible for business operations. The main challenge was to revolutionise the entire purchase process to make it scaleable, measurable and also successful. But we had some issues: -- Monolithic Legacy apps -- Individual projects -- Highly specialised team members with little cross functional capacity. As this was a new team we did not want to alienate them so we started a evolution rather than the revolution bringi...